Thirty Under Thirty

The L.A. Times let Christopher Hawthorne, their architecture critic, review the new Lego Architecture Studio [LA Times]; it ties in neatly with the Financial Times piece in which Edwin Heathcote reviewed a history of building toys [Financial Times]. Lessons learned: Yes, every architect played with Legos.

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (NMM) and the National Gallery of Australia are battling over the first European-made painting of a kangaroo, “The Kongouro from New Holland” (1772) by George Stubbs. [guardian]

Ken Johnson weighs in on those ass-ugly sculptures, and pretend stupidity, in a review of the Public Art Fund show “Lightness of Being.” [The New York Times]

As ArtINFO foretold in its “Thirty Under Thirty” listicle: young Alex Gartenfeld, 28, rose to greater heights yesterday when he was appointed curator of MOCA, North Miami. May his glorious light shine upon the other Twenty-Nine Under Thirties. [Mocanomi.org]

Chris Arnade, who’s spent the past three years photographing in the South Bronx, has written a great piece on why Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument makes him uncomfortable. [Gothamist]